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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: Master (Hijacked) who wrote (7451)6/13/2000 9:14:00 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
what were apes before they were apes?
That topic was covered last night on the discovery channel. They mixed in a lot of new details gleaned from DNA studies as well as fossil studies. The answer is that before apes were apes they were very much like chimpanzees. The chimpanzee DNA is very diverse and that race has likely existed nearly unchanged for the past 5 million years. At that time the first ape, Australapithecine, branched off as a more or less upright standing variety which inhabited the expanding grasslands instead of the forest. In the next 5 million years a rapidly fluxuating series of ice ages led to periods of isolation followd by plenty which emphasised evolutionary change.
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